The repetitive use of acronyms is a simple example of this.
It is not easy to experience or even to like, given the confrontational, repetitive use of female sexuality.
Mr. Padamsee's 1964 painting "Untitled (Bird in Landscape)," with its deadeningly repetitive use of the palette knife, does not excite.
The steps are mostly ballet-academic, interspersed with oddities, like a repetitive use of a push-up position.
The characters' repetitive use of unprintable language and their descriptions of gross behavior serve no discernible purpose beyond forcing any of the cast's relatives who might be in the audience to listen to them.
One way to look at Iran's scurrilous anti-Israel tirades is as a provocation to focus people on Israel's bomb, its 41-year occupation of the West Bank, its Hamas denial, its repetitive use of overwhelming force.
Their movement is deliberate and spare, making repetitive use of arms lifted with the palm facing upward, slow walks on pointe, and deep lunges, legs often in parallel position.
THE seven-year-old Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, where past shows have ranged from stuffed objects to works about the repetitive use of light, has never risked being lumped in with galleries that display, say, driftwood sculptures.
While the Pacifica case gave the F.C.C. the authority to regulate indecent speech like the Carlin monologue, which made deliberate and repetitive use of vulgarities, it left uncertain whether the use of an occasional expletive could be punished.
From the lazily repetitive use of the Ramsey Lewis trio's The In Crowd to the naff student/tutor fantasies of its central relationship (Emma Stone is the besotted pupil while Parker Posey draws the short straw as a screechy academic) this is terribly pedestrian.
But he added, "Based on our experiences with computer users, we know intensive repetitive use of the upper extremities can lead to musculoskeletal disorders, so we have some reason to be concerned that too much texting could lead to temporary or permanent damage to the thumbs".
